We use some essential cookies to make this website work. We'd like to set additional cookies to understand how you use our site. And we'd like to serve you some cookies set by other services to show you relevant content. certain letters of the alphabet to indicate something about their pronunciation. Fortunately, most word processors can produce at least the commoner diacritics. places or titles of literary and musical works.  The French politician is François Mitterrand, the Spanish golfer is José-María Olazábal, the Polish linguist is Jerzy Kuryłowicz, the Turkish national hero is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the beleaguered town in the former Yugoslavia is Goražde, Wagner's opera is the Götterdämmerung and the French film is Zazie dans le Métro.  So far as you can produce them, therefore, these are the forms you should use even when writing in English.  But don't overdo it.  If an accepted English form exists, use that: write Munich, not München, Montreal, not Montréal, The Magic Flute, not Die Zauberflöte. The Wörter und Sachen approach is favoured by some etymologists. these, you should, as always, consult a good dictionary. of a name, but many people nevertheless now write Bronte.